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The Societies Newsletter
01 April 10
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Members Only Training
Days Initiative Proves Massive Success.
Join today to take advantage of this
exclusive of benefit membership. |
Members Training Days - Overview and
Update
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Date |
Location |
Topic |
Tutor |
| 15 April |
Perth, Scotland |
Wedding |
John Denton |
| 20 April |
North London |
Marketing and Lighting |
Oz
Kharawala |
| 22 April |
Bath, Somerset |
Posing and Lighting |
Marko Dutka |
| 26 April |
Buckinghamshire |
Event Photography |
Mike Orr |
| 28 April |
West Midlands |
Event Photography |
Mike Orr |
| 18 May |
Cumbria |
Wedding |
John Denton |
| 19 May |
Tyne & Wear |
Wedding |
John Denton |
| 20 May |
York |
Wedding |
John Denton |
| 8 June |
Nottingham/Derby |
Wedding |
Andrea Barrett |
| 21 June |
Buckinghamshire |
Wedding |
Morag McDonald |
| 8 July |
Berkshire |
Wedding |
Morag McDonald |
For more information on the Members
Training Days please see:
http://swpp.co.uk/seminar_files/members_training_days.htm |
Members Training Days - Event Photography
The Societies will be holding 2 Members Training Days with tutor Mike Orr.
Venue and Dates:
26 April Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
28 April Wednesbury, West Midlands
Sessions:
Profitable Event Photography (Morning)
Practical Guide to Setting up an Indoor
Event. (Afternoon)
Cost: £30 per session, per person
For more information please see:
http://swpp.co.uk/seminar_files/orr_members_training_days.htm
*Members only |
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Professional Imagemaker
Professional Imagemaker is published six
times per year and is free to members, the magazine is also available on
subscription.
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What about the Light? - seeing is Believing
The subject has no end and there
appears to be an ever-lasting need for information on lighting
techniques. Despite all those programmes and writings, not only
mine, but others such as Montizambert and none less than the
late Monte Zucker, there is a general consensus among leading
industry practitioners that the weakest element in professional
photography is lighting technique and many blame this weakness
on the advent of the digital camera.
http://swpp.co.uk/professional_imagemaker/seeing-is-believing.htm |
The world at your feet
It is very easy to be enchanted by the larger landscape and when
I am out by myself I am often taken in and soaked up by the
wider view. All too often I concentrate my visualisation process
on the open valley, the river cascading downwards or the distant
horizon and fail to take much notice of the smaller world. This,
however, is beginning to change. On a recent trip to Sutherland
in Scotland, I was revisiting some of my favourite locations
and, once again, enjoying what they had to offer. But after a
day or so I became somewhat challenged with finding something
that I deemed to be different and I felt I was not breaking new
ground.
http://sinwp.com/articles/The_world_at_your_feet.htm |
John Swannell
At the 2010 Convention Dinner, John Swannell was awarded an
Honorary Fellowship of The Societies in recognition of his
contribution to the art of photography. Here we reproduce a
feature on John, written by Trevor Lansdown with kind permission
of Calumet. All images courtesy and copyright John Swannell.
John Swannell may be of slender stature but he’s made a big fat
impact on UK and international photography across a
helter-skelter working life that has spanned 40 years – and
shows no sign of slipping softly into the photo sidelines any
time soon. Swannell (63) has pretty much done it all. But
naturally he’s far too polite to boast about any of it.
http://sifgp.com/articles/John_Swannell.htm |
Fast Agile Beautiful
McNamee's verdict on the new Nikon D3s
The D3S is a recently launched model in the flagship range of
Nikon SLRs. It aims to provide a new, fast option for press,
sports and nature photographers and builds on the established
reputation of the D3. With a more modest pixel count than many
cameras of its ilk, the D3S has an ability to keep photographing
in light that was totally impossible until now. The ISO speed
range extends seven stops from 200 – 12,800 with additional
modes at either end to extend the high end to an effective
102,400, with a low end of three settings below 200 ISO. The
pixel count of the full-size chip is 12.1 mp (4,256x2,832) which
delivers a 46.5MB cmyk into Photoshop from a RAW file
(uncompressed) of about 13.5MB.
http://simpp.net/articles/Fast_Agile_Beautiful.htm |
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Do you feel that you are making the
most out
of your photography?When there is
such a choice of representative organisations out there you may ask
yourself, why The Societies?
To us the answer is very simple. If you are a newcomer to the industry or
considering a career change then we offer the most comprehensive range
of educational seminars by inspirational speakers...backed by our 'Mentor
Me' programme leading to qualifications.
http://swpp.co.uk/join.htm
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Photographic News
AKVIS ArtSuite v 6 0 Supports Frame Packs
120 years of lenses from Carl Zeiss
Profoto introduces AcuteB2 600 AirS
http://swpp.co.uk/professional_imagemaker/ |
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The Society Book Shop
When it comes to books on the social sector there are few
collections with the depth and range of those published by Amherst
Media. They have a simple formula. Every book is 128 pages, soft
backed and in American Quarto size of 8.5x11inches. With this page
limitation comes a certain conciseness of subject, typified perhaps
by Norman Phillips' High Key, Low Key, and now, Middle Key lighting
guides, one for each topic. The problem for the would-be purchaser
is deciding which ones to go for (and it has to be more than one!).
The easiest way is to browse the book stand at one of the many
events that The Societies attend or organise. Failing that you will
find about 150 words on each of the books on the website www.thesocieties.net/store. The covers shown in the combination photograph
above are the recent releases.
http://thesocieties.net/store/ |
Quick
Tips - Continue to Innovate Howard Butterfield of
theimagefile...
offers some good advice
Keep excitement in your work. Try new things and invest in yourself and your craft,
with time and ideas rather than money. This will give you a new story to give to your
existing customers and perhaps something the competition does not have. Stay
aware of the competition but avoid getting into any form of price war. Sell a better
service; keep closer to your customers - sell and market harder and more inventively.
For more help and advice to get your work online with fully integrated e-commerce
…plus other key benefits visit: www.theimagefile.com/try |
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